Contact: Keith: KStrawn <KStrawn@blessingthechildren.org>

www.BlessingTheChildren.org

888-269-2719

Information:

• Have access to 100 children between the ages of 6 and 12, and the organizational structure to train, receive, distribute, and provide on-going oversight.
• Can provide daily classes throughout the summer for all 100 children for the training under the "American Academy of Excellence", our new school.
• Have many capable people speaking Amharic (the local language in Ethiopia) and English, who can assist you while there and carry on the work when you leave. 
• Have secure facilities to store the equipment until you are ready to distribute them.
• We have never worked with OLPC before. 
• The school, American Academy of Excellence is located in a rural area, outside of the city of Debre Zeyit.
• Because there is not school in the area, we are building a school for the community.
• The local housing is mud huts with mud floors.
  • They are one room structures with people building a fire on the ground in their hut to cook over.
  • You would be staying at a BCI guest house about 15 minutes away.  You will have running water, electricity and a bed.
  • Because we host hundreds of missionaries/volunteers from first-world countries, we maintain guest houses where they can stay.
  • The cost for 8 weeks is $3,749, and includes airfare, room, board, transport in Ethiopia... pretty much all expenses.
• You would need to cover vaccinations, passport and visa cost.
  • The cost is calculated by the base trip cost of $3,245 plus $84/week, so you can calculate the cost for different lengths of stay.
  • Trip info is available here: http://blessingthechildren.org/Forms/Mission_Trips.pdf
  • Please also see our Mission Book for full details: http://blessingthechildren.org/Forms/Missions_Booklet.pd
• Long Term Sustainability:
  • We have a staff there in Ethiopia, of local Ethiopian who speak English very well.  Additionally, we have missionary volunteers year-round.